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' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

R. W'. CARPENTER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

" COMBINATION OF REED INSTRUMENT WITH THE PIANO-FORTE.

Speeileation forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,2 l 7, datediDecember523, 1862.

lo all whom, fit may concern:

Beit known that I, RILEY W. CARPENTER, ot the. city oi' Brooklyn, inthecountyr ot' Kings and State of New York, have invented a new andImproved Mode of Combining a Reed Inration.4 The bellows E, beingarranged under strumont with a Piano-Forte; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same,reference bein g' had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification. in which- Figure 1 is a plan viewot' an instrumentillust'ating my 1nvention,such parts as are not necessary to suchillustration being; omitted. F g. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectionot' the same, with the keyboard of the reed instrument closed up. Fig'.3 is a vertical section corresponding with Fig. 2 of the righthand endof the instrument, with the keyboard of the reed instrument drawn ont.

Similar letters of reference indica-te corresponding parts in theseveral figures.

The 4object of this invention is to combine ay reed musical instrument,such as is known as a melodeon or har1noniuni, with a pianoforte, inIthe same case, with a separate and distinct set ot keys foreach so thateach can be played separately, or the one as an accom panimentto theother, by a difieren t player, without making the said case much largeror very perceptibly altering its appearance in any way:

-and to this end it consists in the arrangement of the reed-board withinone end of the case in an upright position, and thearrangemcnt of thekey-board to swing back into the case with the keys nearly close to thereed-board when it is not; desired to play upon the reeds; also, in anovel arrangement ot' the action, in conibination with such arrangementof the reeds and the key-board. e

To enable'others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

A B is the case, exactly resembling the ease of a square piano-forte inall respects, but that it isbuilt out at the right-hand end to theextent of about tour inches,inereasing its length to that extent. Thepart B so built. out forms a space, b, to contain the upright reed-boardl, and to receive the key-hoard D when the latter is shutup, as shown inFig. 2, in which condition no part of the reed instrument, ex-

cept a portion of the bellows E and its ap' pcndages, can be seen,either while the pianoforte. is closed or while it is open, as the spaceb within the built-out part 'B is covered at the top by a board, a., andthe bottom or exterior of the key-'board is either flush with the endot' the case or paneled, so as to escape obserthe case,will hardly beobserved. The several parts 0f the pia11o-l'o1te may be arrangedprecisely as in other square piano-fortes. 'lhe reed-board O is arrangedclose against the end ol.' the portieri A. ot' the ease which containsthe pianoforte, and communicates with the bellows at the bottom by apassage, c, and the valves d and reeds e can be fitted to the reedboa-rdsubstantially in the usual manner, both being upright like thereed-board. lhe keyboard l) is litted into an opening, m in, in theportion B of the case, and pivoted thereinto, as shown at j', to permitit to be shut up, as shown 'in Fig. 2, or let down, as shown in Fig. 3,and its upper part is connected at each end by two metal. link-bars, oIt, with a fixed pin, i, within the space b to support it in theposition shown in Fig. 8 for playing, the said link-bars heilig sojointed, and. the inner ones being so slotted to slide upon the pins i,that they will be folded up by the act ot' closing up the keyboard. 'lhekeysF Fare attached to the board Din the usual manner. They are extendedback some dista-nce in rear of their fulcrun'ipins j for the purpose ofoperating upon the reed-valves by means of elbow-levers or jacks Gr.'lhcse jacks work upon :t iulerum-pin, ic, which attaches them all tothercedboard, land they act upon the valves through the agency ot'push-pins l, working through holes iu the reed-board. When the key-boardis in the pla-ying position shown in Fig. 3,the rear ends ot' the keysare close under the lower ends of their respective jacks, and thedepression of the playingl ends ofthe keys throws u p their rear endsaga-inst the jacks, and so causes theI upper ends ol." the latter to beforced back against the push-pins, and the valves to be opened. When thekeyboard is moved up to the position shown in Fig. 2, the keys more awayfrom the jacks,which always remain attached to the reed-board. When thekeyboard is in the playing position the upper part ot' the opening m misclosed, or nearly so, by aboard, n, which serves as a name-board, andwhich is hinged to the keyboard. As the key-board is closed up thisboard n comes in contact with the top of the reed-board, and folds upIiowa-rd the key-bon1d,1msSing under 2L stationzuy pin, p, secured atone end et' the space b, und as the keyboard is let down the said board1L is held back until it assumes its proper position relatively to thekeyboard, :ind is then stopped by its lower edge coming to e bearing onthe side pieces, i i', of the key-- i board.

What I elnim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The irren gement of thelieed-bonrd G and the key-board D, incombination with each other and with the extended portion B of theoil-se A B, substantially ns and for the purpose herein described.

2. In combination with suoli arrangement of the reed-board and key-boardWithin the ease, the oon'ibinetion of the reeds sind keys by menus ofj-ielcs G G, applied substantially as herein specified, to permit theclosing np of the keyboard.

R. W. CARPENTER. Witn esses:

M. S. PAR'rmDGE, TIMOTHY SHINE.

